Much will be made of Lord Turner’s comments, made yesterday, that the City had grown "beyond a reasonable size", accounting for too much of British output and taking away too many of the country's brightest graduates whilst undertaking "socially useless activity".

Perhaps as important though in the context of his job as head of the Financial Services Authority, former deputy at the Bank of England and former CBI director general is this:

In a statement that reversed a decade of policy at the regulator, he also said it was no longer one of his primary aims to promote the status of London as a global financial centre.

"The really fundamental question is whether the overall level of financial services pay is a consequence of the swollen financial sector which has resulted from over-simplistic financial deregulation. This is not a question that any of the politicians have focused on but I think it's an important and legitimate issue of public concern," he said.

Now he had a role in promoting that over simplistic regulation, but let’s not dwell too much on that for now. the messages are clear I think: regulation needs to improve, regulation needs to curtail harmful activity; financial services activity can be harmful; taxes that promote financial services activity are by implication harmful and therefore tax and regulatory reform to curtail this abuse are required.

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